Am 21.11.2012 00:30, schrieb Barney Cordoba:
--- On Tue, 11/20/12, Ingo Flaschberger <i...@xip.at> wrote:
stems (Intel 82541GI) polling prevent live-locks.
Best test:
Loop a GigE Switch, inject a Packet and plug it into the
test-box.
Yeah, thats a good real-world test.
To me "performance" is not "burning a cpu" to get some extra pps.
Performance is not dropping buckets of packets. Performance is using
less cpu to do the same amount of work.
Is a machine that benchmarks at 998Mb/s at 95% cpu really a "higher
performance" system than one that does 970Mb/s and uses 50% of the cpu?
Talking about Mb/s is definitly the wrong way - forwarding performance
is measured in pps.
The measure of performance is to manage an entire load without dropping
any packets. If your machine goes into live-lock, then you need more
machine. Hacking it so that it drops packets is hardly a solution.
No, because standard internet traffic has not 100% 64b packets - but
when a hacker attacks - it has (dos).
Then it's important to know - who is the attacker and keep the box up
even if it drops packets.
If you don't like packet drops - go - buy some juniper (which also use
FreeBSD).
Kind regards,
Ingo Flaschberger
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